Rochdale                 package:vcd                 R Documentation

_R_o_c_h_d_a_l_e _D_a_t_a

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Information on 665 households of Rochdale, Lancashire, UK. The
     study was conducted to identify influence factors on economical
     activity of wives.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Rochdale)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A 8-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 665
     observations on 8 variables.  The variables and their levels are
     as follows:

       No  Name              Levels
        1  EconActive        yes, no
        2  Age               <38, >38
        3  HusbandEmployed   yes, no
        4  Child             yes, no
        5  Education         yes, no
        6  HusbandEducation  yes, no
        7  Asian             yes, no
        8  HouseholdWorking  yes, no

_N_o_t_e:

     Many observations are missing: only 91 out of all 256 combinations
     contain information.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Whittaker (1990).

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     H. Hofmann (2003). Constructing and reading mosaicplots.
     _Computational Statistics & Data Analysis_, \bold(43), 4, 565-580.

     J. Whittaker (1990), _Graphical Models on Applied Multivariate
     Statistics_, Wiley, New York.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(Rochdale)
     mosaic(Rochdale)

